Beth Israel Medical Center

News about Beth Israel Medical Center, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

May. 30, 2013

Court filings describe what relatives of Huguette Clark see as effort by Beth Israel Medical Center to coerce copper heiress to give hospital piece of her $300 million estate; wealthy and reclusive Clark lived in Manhattan hospital room for last 20 years of her life, and documents say hospital officials began fund-raising campaign within months of her arrival; Clark died in 2011 at age 104. MORE

Mar. 2, 2012

Beth Israel Medical Center admits that it fraudulently inflated its fees for services to Medicare patients, deliberately deceiving the federal government into paying millions of dollars more than their treatments actually cost; agrees to pay the United States government more than $13 million in damages. MORE

Anthony D’Alessandro, once the head pharmacist for Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Manhattan, is accused of stealing about 200,000 oxycodone pills, with a street value of $5.6 million, from his own pharmacy.